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Former Assistant Federal Public Defender, (AFPD), Tamara Giwa, has been selected to serve as the new Executive Director for the Federal Defenders of New York.Notably, Giwa…

Federal public defenders would avoid the most dire budget scenarios under the fiscal 2024 funding package unveiled Thursday, with Congress set to spend tens of millions of dollars more than previous…

Prison: If you tested positive for a soy allergy, we'd stop feeding you soy, but we don't think you have a real allergy and we're not buying your "my religion prohibits me from eating foods that make my stomach hurt" schtick. Fourth…

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey issued sweeping pardons forgiving possession of marijuana convictions, following the directive of President Joe Biden, who urged state executives to follow his lead in…

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey issued sweeping pardons forgiving possession of marijuana convictions, following the directive of President Joe Biden, who urged state executives to follow his lead in pardoning low-level marijuana offenses.

It would apply to any adult convictions in…

Federal procurement law includes contracting preferences for service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs). That creates an incentive for people to game the procurement system by, for example, nominally having service-disabled veterans as the owners of a company, while actually…

Late Tuesday evening, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order that temporarily halts the state of Texas’s plans to arrest migrants along the Texas-Mexico border. See Associated…

New FBI data released on Tuesday confirms previous indications that crime in the U.S. declined significantly in 2023, continuing a post-pandemic trend and belying…

Two former law enforcement officers who were part of a self-styled “Goon Squad” that tortured, sexually assaulted and beat residents of a Mississippi county were given hefty prison sentences on Tuesday for brutally attacking two Black men last year (…

On March 18, 1963, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments guaranteed appointment of counsel for Mr. Clarence Earl Gideon and all others facing serious criminal charges…